On Sep 7, 2007, at 5:18 AM, David Segall wrote:
> Those two sentences are true. If scraping is an illegal copyright
> infringement Google could not escape prosecution simply because no one
> is complaining about their activities. Not only are they scraping but
> they are storing the result of their scraping in their own database
> and
> they are reformatting it and profiting from the results. They are
> doing
> exactly what a MythTV user wants to do except that the only
> "profit" for
> a MythTV user is having a locally stored TV Guide.
On the other hand, if someone asks Google to stop scraping a site,
they do, and they remove the data from their system. They also
provide a mechanism for telling their spiders not to scrape
particular pages, which if you think about it is really just an
automated way of communicating ToS.